The Ravens Have ONE Defensive Weakness

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(10-10-2020, 03:08 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: The Ravens defense has allowed a QB rating of 93.1 to opposing QB's and a completion rate of 67.2%. They've also allowed a 42.5% overall 3rd down conversion rate and rank 28th in 3rd down pass defense, and even worse (29th) on 1st downs.

If the Bengals can muster any kind of run game on Sunday, it should open up the passing game and allow for some big plays. 

Interesting thing about these stats....

93.1 rating is actually a below average number this year... NFL average QB Rating? 96.3
67.2% completion is barely above the NFL average of 66.7% this year.

Based off our accumulated knowledge, those numbers SHOULD be horrible for a defense to allow, but really they're pretty much average. 

The NFL really needs a QB Rating version of OPS+/ERA+ where it's a number based off league average that year and then put on a range where 100 is average and every 1 above or below 100 means that QB was that % better or worse than average.

2020 QB through 4 games: 65% completion, 920 yards, 6 TD/4 INT
2000 QB through 4 games: 59% completion, 840 yards, 6 TD/4 INT

Who had the better season? The 2000 QB, because he was above average in all 4 stats while the 2020 QB was below average in all 4. They seriously need a QB Rating+ or something. Then we could look and see 2020 QB was a QBR+ of 97 and the 2000 QB was a QBR+ of 110, so the 2000 QB was notably better.

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(The point you raised about the 1st and 3rd down defense is still very valid, though. Granted I do wonder how much of that is them playing prevent defenses to run out the clock on wins since they're still the 4th ranked scoring defense. The average score on their 3 wins is 34-13, so that's some serious garbage time.)